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4th January 2007, 5:31pm
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#16 | | on a shoe driven mission
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: over a rainbow
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yeah i was likewise for a while and it was bit a of a grey area - the doctors werent exactly informative/forthcoming/helpful at all
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8th January 2007, 9:26pm
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#17 | | Stop pissing me off...
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cessnock
Posts: 1,328
| Re: Pcos
my PCOS diet book arrived today. Much readage at lunchtime.
docs also put me back on Microgynon. meh | |
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10th January 2007, 10:24am
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#18 | | In a jar.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Up a tree.
Posts: 3,033
| Re: Pcos
Great stuff, got mine last friday. Seems to borrow a lot from the principles of G.I. Very interesting. I'm guna leave the herbal remedies and stuff until I've seen the doctor properly tho. I've started eatin more healthily tho and I think my skin seems a bit brighter.
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10th January 2007, 10:32am
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#19 | | doon satans alley.
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| Re: Pcos
Hmmm, I should have a swatch at this.
Puppy, my family have a history of diabetes, why wouldnt they put you on Metformin?
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10th January 2007, 10:51am
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#20 | | (suicidemachine)
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| Re: Pcos
I thought this thread was abou PC-DOS 
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10th January 2007, 10:53am
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#21 | | doon satans alley.
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*pats wee head*
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10th January 2007, 10:54am
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#22 | | In a jar.
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| Re: Pcos
Hehe bless! 
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10th January 2007, 11:37am
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#23 | | dumb as a moose
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Glasgow
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I have PCOS, or at least I think so - when I was referred for ultrasound (it took 8 months for appt to come through "administrative error" or some such nonsense), it was 3 months before gynaecologist rang about appt and I was pregnant, so no formal diagnosis of cysts, but have symptoms.
I'm overweight still, was size 22 at my biggest, massively painful periods, hair on head is thinning and starting to get more body hair, particularly worried about sporting a tom selleck moustache in the near future!
My doctors have never been anything less than completely uninterested, and put me on pill, which helps a lot. Obviously fertility is an issue too, but losing weight is one of the big things you can do to ease symptoms.
Is one of those crappy catch-22 situations; PCOS causes you to gain weight, but the more you weigh the worse it gets.
The only things you can try to do is lose weight if you're overweight (easier said than done) and pester GP to fuck to make sure you get treatment.
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10th January 2007, 1:06pm
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#24 | | In a jar.
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It does sound like it. Also the fact that the Pill makes you gain weight while you wanna keep it off is annoyin. 
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10th January 2007, 5:58pm
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#25 | | on a shoe driven mission
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yep
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10th January 2007, 8:17pm
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#26 | | In a jar.
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Girshkin - funny you should mention that you waited ages on your ultrasound, I just got my letter today and the appointments this month. It sucks you had to wait so long tho! 
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15th January 2007, 1:46pm
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#27 | | dumb as a moose
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well good luck with the scan, tho make sure you drink plenty of water - i had been sick and chucked most of what I'd drank up before scan and ended up having an internal ultrasound, which in fairness, wasn't too bad, but best to be avoided I think!
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18th January 2007, 5:02pm
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#28 | | In a jar.
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Originally Posted by Girshkin  well good luck with the scan, tho make sure you drink plenty of water - i had been sick and chucked most of what I'd drank up before scan and ended up having an internal ultrasound, which in fairness, wasn't too bad, but best to be avoided I think! | I drank loads of water, it was so hard tryin to hold it in lol. But, he said he couldn't see my ovaries too well and I ended up with an internal. Its not horrific but I'd rather not have had it.
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21st January 2007, 7:00pm
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#29 | | Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Dundee
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hiyah ladies
I have PCOS and was plagued with worries about why i didn;t have my period, why i carry so much extra weight on my tummy, depression, lovely hair in places it shouldn't be.....all this starting when i was 17. I was only officially given my label about 4 years ago (i'm 31 now)
I'm on Dianette, which has lost its license for being a contraceptive, because it causes depression ( more depression?!?) and i have had the scans both internal and external, and been told that getting pregnant could help...but as one of mentioned before, getting pregnant in itself is a mission.
So now i face my mates all getting pregnant, which i don;t really want just now, but having the option to be would be nice as well...god do any of you know what i mean?
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21st January 2007, 7:30pm
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#30 | | Stop pissing me off...
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Ive just had my firt TOTM in 4 months and it feels horrid
its sore....
god bless dihydrocodeine | |
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